Pharmacy Times
JANUARY 31, 2024
Kristen Peterson, PharmD, BCOP, explores how pharmacists deliver comprehensive education, empower patients, manage side effects, and prioritize outcomes for multiple myeloma care, ensuring quality treatment understanding and adherence.
Drug Topics
JANUARY 29, 2024
Study findings that identified non-COVID respiratory illness as the most serious health issue among members of low- and middle-income countries provide policymakers with a valuable lens through which to understand and address public health concerns.
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Pharmacy Times
JANUARY 31, 2024
On a flight home from ASHP Midyear in December, one pharmacist stepped up to the plate in a medical emergency.
pharmaphorum
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
As cyberattacks continue to target the healthcare sector, it is crucial to look back at cybersecurity incidents from the past year and prepare for the challenges that lie ahead. This retrospective discusses the impact on patients, health systems, insurers, and vendors, and highlights the importance of cybersecurity measures in protecting sensitive healthcare information.
Speaker: Chris Antypas and Josh Halladay
Access to limited distribution drugs and payer contracts are key to pharmacy expansion. But how do you prepare your operations to take the next step? Meaningful data: Collect and share clinical data regarding outcomes, utilization, and more Reporting: Limited distribution models require efficient tracking and reporting systems Workflows: Align workflows with specific pharma and payer contractual requirements For in-depth, expert insights on pharmacy expansion, watch this webinar from Inovalon.
STAT
FEBRUARY 2, 2024
Amid ongoing uncertainty about when abortions are permissible in Texas, the state’s medical board is under growing pressure to issue guidance on what type of emergency qualifies for an exemption from the state’s abortion ban. Two high-profile abortion supporters filed a petition in January requesting the board define what would be grounds for a legal abortion, and their efforts are backed by activists from across the political divide.
Drug Topics
JANUARY 30, 2024
Although continous glucose monitors (CGMs) have often been tailored to patients with type 1 diabetes, data elicited by these technologies add value to the management of type 2 diabetes by offering insights into patients’ unique responses to food, activity, medications, and more.
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Fierce Pharma
JANUARY 29, 2024
The start of the new year doesn’t seem to have dulled the zeal of Pfizer’s global cost-cutting campaign, which has already left hundreds of jobs in its wake. | Come mid-February, Pfizer will lay off some 52 employees at a facility in South San Francisco, according to a recent Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act alert. The site is the former headquarters of Global Blood Therapeutics.
STAT
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
New data released Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggest that the most recent Covid-19 booster offers about 54% percent protection against infection with the virus. A study published in the CDC’s online journal Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report showed that the updated vaccine was essentially equally effective at protecting against the strain targeted by the vaccine — called XBB.1.5 — and the JN.1 subvariant, which emerged after the vaccin
Drug Topics
JANUARY 29, 2024
Three posters being presented at the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine 44th Annual Pregnancy Meeting examined the impact of continuous glucose monitoring on pregnancy outcomes.
Pharmacy Times
JANUARY 31, 2024
Sharon Rimon, NP, shares insights on the rectal administration of fecal microbiota therapy, highlighting its efficacy, ease of adoption in clinical practice, and benefits for patients.
Speaker: Dr. Ben Locwin - Biopharmaceutical Executive & Healthcare Futurist
What will the future hold for clinical research? A recent draft from the FDA provides valuable insight. In "Optimizing the Dosage of Human Prescription Drugs and Biological Products for the Treatment of Oncologic Diseases," the FDA notes that "targeted therapies demonstrate different dose-response relationships compared to cytotoxic chemotherapy, such that doses below the Maximum Tolerated Dose (MTD) may have similar efficacy to the MTD but with fewer toxicities.
Fierce Pharma
FEBRUARY 2, 2024
Mark your calendars, oncology drug and CAR-T therapy developers. | Mark your calendars, oncology drug and CAR-T therapy developers. The FDA has decided on a date for a highly anticipated advisory committee meeting for Bristol Myers' Abecma and J&J's Carvykti.
STAT
JANUARY 31, 2024
The descent into dementia can feel like traversing a minefield, coming across new symptoms without the hope of a cure. But some dementia patients, even up to 10% of people diagnosed with the condition, might actually have undiagnosed liver disease and accompanying neurological problems, a new study in JAMA Open Network suggests. Most importantly, it’s possible their liver-related brain symptoms could be resolved with treatment.
Drug Topics
JANUARY 30, 2024
Findings from a recent study showed that participants who watched a video discussing COVID-19 vaccination had significantly higher knowledge scores compared to those who did not watch it.
Pharmacy Times
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
The burden of RSV in the older population is becoming highly recognized as studies have assessed higher-risk individuals in industrialized and developing countries.
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Fierce Pharma
JANUARY 31, 2024
More than two years after Aduhelm's controversial and ill-fated FDA accelerated approval, Bi | Biogen is discontinuing its first Alzheimer's disease therapy, Aduhelm, after walking a rocky path. The company is taking a $60 million charge, halting sales and terminating a confirmatory trial.
STAT
FEBRUARY 2, 2024
The Food and Drug Administration should move more quickly to ensure pulse oximeters — the ubiquitous devices used to measure blood oxygen — work well in all patients, should better inform clinicians about the devices’ shortcomings in patients with darker skin, and should recall versions that are particularly problematic, patients, researchers, and consumer advocates testified during a public meeting on Friday.
Drug Topics
FEBRUARY 2, 2024
Investigators found that the non-pharmacological interventions were significantly effective at improving HbA1c, quality of life, anxiety, and blood glucose.
Pharmacy Times
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
The findings suggest that further research on additional intervention methods and expanding access to hydroxyurea in Africa could benefit young patients with sickle cell disease.
Fierce Healthcare
JANUARY 30, 2024
Patients were protected from more than 10 million surprise medical bills thanks to reforms in the No Surprises Act, according to a new survey. | Patients were protected from more than 10 million surprise medical bills thanks to reforms in the No Surprises Act, according to a new survey.
STAT
JANUARY 29, 2024
LONDON — There was something odd about these Alzheimer’s cases. Part of it was the patients’ presentations: Some didn’t have the classic symptoms of the condition. But it was also that the patients were in their 40s and 50s, even their 30s, far younger than people who normally develop the disease. They didn’t even have the known genetic mutations that can set people on the course for such early-onset Alzheimer’s.
Drug Topics
FEBRUARY 2, 2024
The vaccine showed an overall efficacy of 80% in the per-protocol analysis, with a risk reduction of 6.1 typhoid infections per 1000 vaccinated children.
Pharmacy Times
JANUARY 30, 2024
Investigators determined the effectiveness of behavioral activation psychotherapy versus antidepressant medication management for inpatients with heart failure and depression.
Fierce Pharma
JANUARY 29, 2024
New legislation aimed at blocking a group of Chinese biopharma firms from tapping into U.S. federal funding has sent shares tumbling in recent days. | New legislation aimed at blocking a group of Chinese biopharma firms from tapping into U.S. federal funding has sent shares tumbling in recent days. WuXi Bio, for its part, says it's not affiliated with the military in China.
STAT
JANUARY 29, 2024
On Thursday evening, the state of Alabama executed Kenneth Eugene Smith by nitrogen gas. Now, there are dueling narratives about what happened. Alabama claims it went perfectly, proving that nitrogen is a humane, effective alternative to lethal injection (which it previously tried, unsuccessfully, to use on Smith). It says that based on this experience, other states should follow its example.
Drug Topics
FEBRUARY 2, 2024
Although diabetes mortality rates were stable in the Americas over the past 2 decades, the actual number of diabetes-related deaths is rising.
Pharmacy Times
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
The late-breaking data at the 2024 American Society of Clinical Oncology Genitourinary Cancers Symposium included the results of KEYNOTE-123 for locally advanced resectable urothelial carcinoma.
Pharmaceutical Technology
JANUARY 29, 2024
At the JP Morgan Healthcare conference, Merck (MSD) indicated its eagerness to continue to establish its place in the immunological space.
STAT
JANUARY 31, 2024
WILMINGTON, Del. — Wednesday was the first time that a federal judge asked questions in-person of drug industry lawyers who are trying to stop Medicare from negotiating drug prices. It didn’t go well for them. AstraZeneca’s lawyers argued that Medicare’s new powers amount to a taking of their property rights without due process.
Fierce Pharma
JANUARY 31, 2024
Beaten to the punch by Pfizer in developing a vaccine for COVID, GSK has regained some of its lost luster as a vaccine powerhouse with its advancement of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) shot Arex | GSK's RSV vaccine Arexvy generated $1.5 billion in sales in 2023 compared to $890 million for Pfizer's Abrysvo. But the British pharma major says that the successful launch represents just one round of a boxing match, and much is still to be decided, especially with Moderna expected to joi
Pharmacy Times
FEBRUARY 2, 2024
Older adults, patients with weakened immune systems, individuals living in long-term facilities, and those with underlying cardiopulmonary disease are at a higher risk of developing severe RSV infection outcomes.
Fierce Healthcare
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
A recommendation on the 2024 Measures Under Consideration list, brought forward by the Federation of American Hospitals (FAH), would add a quality measure in the Medicare Advantage (MA) star rating | The Federation of American Hospitals is pushing CMS for the inclusion of a star ratings quality measure that shows how often insurers overturn or uphold prior authorization denials.
STAT
JANUARY 30, 2024
Ultima Genomics, an upstart some observers have called a “ dark horse ” in the world of DNA sequencing, will soon launch a line of high-power instruments that can read a human genome for as little as $100, the company’s leadership told STAT. The sequencer, dubbed the UG 100, is a $1.5 million machine that can read up to 20,000 human genomes a year.
Fierce Pharma
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
With Merck reporting a whopping $25 billion sales haul for | With Merck reporting a whopping $25 billion sales haul for Keytruda on Thursday, the PD-1 cancer superstar appears to be the world’s top-selling drug in 2023. Keytruda looks set to take over the top spot from Pfizer and BioNTech’s Comirnaty, which ruled the previous two years, scoring sales of $55.9 billion in 2022 and $55.1 billion in 2021.
Pharmacy Times
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
Understanding differences in the various levodopa formulations and assisting with medication therapy management is a crucial role for pharmacists.
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